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'Dazzling' Social Network
Is 'Absurdly Enjoyable'

review roundup

Sep 30, 2010 7:25 PM CDT

'Dazzling' Social Network Is 'Absurdly Enjoyable'

Critics still raving about the Facebook movie

(Newser) - On the eve of its opening, the Social Network continues to get serious love from reviewers. The Facebook movie's Rotten Tomatoes score is humming along at a 98% positive clip. Samples:

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal : It "quickly lifts you to a state of exhilaration, and pretty much keeps

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The Site That Could
Have Been Facebook

Sep 30, 2010 2:20 PM CDT

The Site That Could Have Been Facebook

A look at Zuckerberg's early competition

(Newser) - If things had shaken out differently, Adam Goldberg might have been the troubled genius protagonist of The Social Network. When Facebook first launched back in 2004, Goldberg’s CU Community, a Columbia-based version of the same concept, was already up and running. “At first I was like, Oh my ...

Mark Zuckerberg,
Fashion Icon?

OPINION

Sep 29, 2010 10:43 AM CDT

Mark Zuckerberg, Fashion Icon?

Surprisingly, yes, writes Rebecca Dana

(Newser) - In The Social Network , Mark Zuckerberg explains that Facebook is like fashion—but he could be talking about The Social Network itself. Deep down, it’s “a fashion flick,” writes Rebecca Dana for the Daily Beast . Sure, Zuck’s entire wardrobe appears to consist of sweatpants, hoodies, and...

The Social Network:
The Next Citizen Kane?

critics going totally nuts

Sep 27, 2010 7:12 AM CDT

The Social Network: The Next Citizen Kane?

Critics are already calling it a classic

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg already hates The Social Network —but after hearing the early reviews, he probably hates it even more. It doesn’t open until Friday, but critics are already calling "The Facebook Movie" a masterpiece, predicting an Oscar, and comparing it to Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Balzac, and...

The Social Network Gets Zuck All Wrong

OPINION

Sep 9, 2010 9:52 AM CDT

The Social Network Gets Zuck All Wrong

Harvard classmate says Mark was cool kid on campus

(Newser) - Aaron Sorkin’s new movie, The Social Network, appears to be a "paranoid, sleazy, and grim" imagining of the founding of Facebook, in which Mark Zuckerberg, a cantankerous outsider, creates his social network in a bid to impress buxom women and callow preppies. “That completely misses the point,...

Meet Facebook 'Genius' Sean Parker

'vanity fair' profile

Sep 8, 2010 7:46 AM CDT

Meet Facebook 'Genius' Sean Parker

Otherwise known as Justin Timberlake in The Social Network

(Newser) - According to Sean Parker, Sean Parker has "helped change the world, at least three times." Two of those times, one assumes, are related to his involvement in the early days of Napster and Facebook: "Two of the most significant companies in the history of the Internet,"...

Facebook Pushed
for Big Changes
to Movie

Aug 21, 2010 1:50 PM CDT

Facebook Pushed for Big Changes to Movie

Executives are ignoring it publicly, fighting it privately

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg and crew are taking a ho-hum attitude in public about the upcoming Facebook movie the Social Network, save for a few comments here and there about how it distorts reality. Things are much more tense in private, reports the New York Times , which describes behind-the-scenes contacts between Facebook...

Twitter, YouTube Get
Movie Trailers

hilarious spoofs

Aug 13, 2010 9:15 AM CDT

Twitter, YouTube Get Movie Trailers

Fake movies look better than 'The Social Network'

(Newser) - The debut of the melodramatic trailer for The Social Network—aka "the Facebook movie"—was basically guaranteed to be followed by parodies. Luckily, the spoofs are pretty darn hilarious. So far Twitter (sample line: "I need to create a way to blog that is as random and...

Trailer for
Facebook
Movie
Arrives

Jul 15, 2010 2:39 PM CDT

Trailer for Facebook Movie Arrives

'Social Network' looks to be a dramatic comedy

(Newser) - The full trailer for the hype-heavy Facebook movie is on the web. The tease for The Social Network is "clearly aiming to be a dramatic movie and it’s actually looking like something worth watching," writes Nick O'Neil at All Facebook . If the clips are any indication, Facebook...

Facebook Movie
Paints Zuckerberg
as 'Sex Maniac'

May 16, 2010 4:10 PM CDT

Facebook Movie Paints Zuckerberg as 'Sex Maniac'

Dramatized account of website's early years depicts founder as 'conniver'

(Newser) - The screenplay for a forthcoming movie about the origins of Facebook depicts founder Mark Zuckerberg as a "borderline-autistic conniver" and "sex maniac," the Times of London reports . The Social Network dates the start of the website to February 2004, when—according to the "highly dramatized" script—...